A Southport company which loves to take on “big projects and big risks” has achieved a massive feat and filmed it in a time lapse video to show it being built and then taken down.

STORM Consultancy, which specialises in event management, staged Liverpool Sound City 2015’s city centre music festival and conference on the disused Liverpool docklands of Bramley Moore and Nelson Docks in May.

Ian Pollitt, of Peel Land and Property (Ports) Limited, said: “The task of converting an old disused dockland, surrounded by water on three sides and delivering a large event safely over Peel Land was an immense challenge. There was only one large event management company that Peel had confidence could actually do it. I suggested Sound City contacted STORM.”

As well as taking on this major project, STORM, which boasts “unrestrained passion, imagination and energy at its heart”, has also assisted with Southport Flower Show, Southport Air Show, and organised and delivered the XtremSTORM obstacle endurance event.

Jonathan Cunningham MBE, managing director of STORM, said: “When we agreed to plan Sound City 2015 the general response was that it was commercial suicide.

“But risk taking and event challenge is in the DNA of our company.

“When we first got to the docks, where the event was to be held, it was a death trap.

“But we made it happen and had an awful lot of safety facilities in place.

“Following the event the reviews have been phenomenal and due to this success we have already backed it for next year with planning already underway.”

Jonathan, a former soldier who founded the company in 2009, is also a big fan of multi-media.

The 44-year-old from Southport, said: “We’ve got to be different with our media.

“We’ve got two drones and live 360 cameras to film all of our events.

“It’s all about being different on social media – people want multi-media these days.”

The dad-of-three, who runs the company with his wife and fellow director Joanne, gets lots of help with filming from the couple’s children Edward, 16, Bertie, 14, and Kitty 11.

Jonathan said: “We’re all in team STORM and Edward and Bertie helped a lot with the time lapse video.”

STORM now assists several North West councils deliver their large events programme with “huge savings”, and over the years has delivered multiple charity and large city events - many televised on Sky and Channel 4 – including Liverpool Pride and the Liverpool Tennis Tournament.